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JONAS MEKAS — GUNS OF THE TREES

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A meditation on love and death in a period of darkness. — Jonas Mekas

A restored 35mm print of GUNS OF THE TREES, Mekas’ debut feature, is screening daily at Anthology Film Archives.

This weekend the Archive also celebrates the publication of Mekas’ I SEEM TO LIVE—THE NEW YORK DIARIES, VOL 1, 1950–1969 with a launch party and reading. Participants include Mekas colleagues Ken Jacobs and Vyt Bakaitis, and actor Stella Schnabel.

GUNS OF THE TREES

Saturday and Sunday, January 25 and 26, at 5:15 pm and 7:30 pm.

Monday through Wednesday, January 27, 28, and 29, at 7:30 pm.

Anthology Film Archives

32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City.

Jonas Mekas, Guns of the Trees (1962), from top: Ben Carruthers and Argus Spear Juillard; Adolfas Mekas (left); Frances Stillman and A. Mekas; Carruthers; Juillard and Carruthers. Images courtesy and © the Estate of Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives.

CHANTAL AKERMAN AT CINEFAMILY

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Women of Cinefamily present a weekend of screenings in their No Great Women Artists series, a look at how the Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins web series I Love Dick pays tribute to the work of filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Sally Potter, Carolee Schneeman, and Naomi Uman.

In the 1970s, Akerman spent her early twenties in New York City and absorbed the cinema of Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, and Jonas Mekas. Returning to Belgium, Akerman crafted two of her greatest works: JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974), and JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975), both screening at Cinefamily.

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JE, TU, IL, ELLE

Sunday, May 7, at 6 pm.

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
Monday, May 8, at 7:30 pm.
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Cinefamily
611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles.
Above: Chantal Akerman.
Below: Je, tu, il, elle, directed by Chantal Ackerman